Hung Gar weapons

[wuwei]

Is there nunchaku in Hung Gar?
I saw school teaching them....
what about wooden man, is there a form like WC?

[Ben Gash]

All depends on what you mean by Hung Gar. The Wong Fei Hung lineage Hung Gar that you see more commonly in the West certainly doesn't, but I do know of some "village" systems that have hardcore dummy sets. It's also possible that some of the other Hung systems teach short sweeper.

[illusionfist]

I've never seen a Hung Kuen lineage that has the nunchuks, but there are several lineages of Hung Kuen that make use of dummies. Many of them are not just excluded to the the WC type dummy and they make use of rarer types, like the gau sing jong (9 star dummy), etc.

Peace :D

[wuwei]

That's what I though.I searched aroung on the net, and saw no mention of nunchaku.Was wondering what they are doing?

[Ben Gash]

It could be a number of things.It could be a village system that contains the short sweeper, it could have absorbed short sweeper from another style (there was a lot of interplay and form sharing between styles in Canton in the early/mid twentieth century), the teacher could have learned the form somewhere else and decided to teach it in his syllabus, the teacher may have felt a need to conform to public expectations in the 70s and 80s and devised a Hung style nunchaku routine, or, of course, it could be Kenpo masquerading as kung fu or made up junk.
Go along and ask the Sifu.

[Shaolinlueb]

wing lam etaches those two cool ass shields.

[mok]

Hey all,

I'm a newbie here from the Hung Gar school wuwei was checking out in montreal - see my response on the other thread if you're interested...


Other than the 'chucks, the main weapons we learn are:

Daan do, staff, gim, double broadswords, spear, and cane. There is no umbrella, but perhaps the cane set is analogous?

At the black-sash level new weapons are introduced: butterfly swords, wooden bench, double gim, and double daggers.

Our double-daggers set is from northern eagle-claw, in fact the same set is played 2 ways - either with daggers in reverse grip or without using the standard "eagle claw" shape. It has some pretty fancy kicking in it, and is decidedly not "hung gar".


Judging on the weapons rack, they also taught 3-section staff, 9 section whip, and trident (tiger-fork) at some point. But I have never seen these taught and none of the current black-sashes know these sets.


I have no idea if other "typical" Hung Gar lineages do a wooden man set? there are clips on the net of grandmaster Chan Hon Jung doing a mook yan jong set, but it's not the same set we do.
IMHO dummy training fits nicely with Hung gar - it's really good to help you flow/trap, and to toughen your forearms as well...




Regards,


mok